Chastity Layman 2

Chapter 83 Li Cunxiao

The big pig's head, roast chicken, etc. offered in front of the graves of Luo Shixin and the others were taken away by Qin Lang and placed in front of the hungry people.

Looking at the fat pig's head and the golden roast chicken, the hungry people couldn't help salivating.

Qin Lang pulled out the knife, cut the pork knife and roast chicken into small pieces, and put the steamed cakes in front of him, "Women, children and the elderly are given priority, queue up to eat!"

The hungry people looked at Qin Lang hesitantly. If it weren't for the dozens of people standing behind Qin Lang with their hands on the handles of their knives, they couldn't help but gather around and grab it.

"Come on, everyone has a share! First come, first served." Qin Lang took a knife and forked a piece of pig's nose and waved it in front of everyone.

Finally, a child couldn't help trotting over.

The child was skinny and skinny, and the two corners of his head had long since come loose. His hair was disheveled, and his bare feet and upper body were bare, revealing two ribs.

He rushed in front of Qin Lang and reached out to grab the meat.

Qin Lang grabbed his hand immediately.

"Follow the rules, stand still, and wash your hands in this basin first."

The boy stared at the meat and struggled for a few times, but his hand seemed to be clamped by iron tongs and he couldn't pull it away, so he had no choice but to nod.

Qin Lang let go of his hand, and he immediately reached out to grab it again. Qin Lang slapped the back of the boy's hand with a knife, and he grinned in pain.

"be honest."

Only then did the young man walk to the side helplessly, bent down and washed his hands in the basin a few times before coming back, his eyes still fixed on the meat on Qin Lang's knife.

Throat can't stop swallowing saliva.

"What's your name?"

"No name."

"Then what do people call you?"

"They all call me Li Tujue, and some call me Li Chou'er."

Qin Lang took a closer look and found that this child really had some alien looks. Based on his name, he probably was a Turkic or a Turkic mixed race, so others called him Li Turk or Li Chou'er.

"Which one is your Aye mother?"

"I don't have Aye Niang."

Qin Lang handed the pig nose to Li Tujue, "You stand aside first."

Li Tujue was very bold, and he didn't care about other things at this time. He took the pig's nose and gnawed it, and even choked on tears from eating too fast. Qin Lang patted him a few times, and a piece of pig's nose fell from his throat. It squirted out and fell to the ground, but he immediately picked it up and threw it into his mouth to chew, with a satisfied expression on his face.

Seeing that Li Turjue had eaten the meat, the others finally believed in Qin Lang and lined up one after another.

Women and children, old and weak, line up at the front, and young and strong men line up at the back.

If there are more people and less meat, each person will get a piece first.

Qin Lang asked everyone to take out the dry food and pancakes they brought to help the hungry people. There were more than a hundred people in this group of hungry people, and they devoured the food.

After Li Turjue finished eating the pig nose, he circled around Qin Lang again, wanting to eat some more.

"I've already asked people to cook the soup cakes in a hot pot, and I'll eat them in a while."

Li Tujue was also bold, he surrounded Qin Lang and refused to leave, but answered every question he had.

The child looked thin and thin, but he was already seven years old. He said that his family was originally from Hedong, and his mother's surname was Li. Many years ago, when the Turks invaded the south, his mother was raped by Turkic rebels, and later gave birth to him.Because of having a child out of wedlock, the Li family was despised by others, and then fled to Luoyang to flee famine with the villagers, and died of illness. At that time, Li Tujue lost his mother when he was only three years old, and had no one to support him, so he became a beggar and ate hundreds of meals. grown up.

Recently, there was no food to be found in Luoyang City, so Li Tujue went out of the city and wandered around with a group of hungry people.

Although he has Turkic blood, he is also known as Li Turk and Li Chouer, but he lived near Luoyang when he was a child, and he has never had contact with Turkic people. Li Turkic said that he hates Turkic people the most.

"What do you guys do?" Li Turjue asked him.

"I'm a businessman, traveling all over the world to sell goods."

"Then why do you pay homage to those graves here? I heard that those graves are all famous generals!"

"Hehe, you know a lot."

"You take me, I can do anything, I can help you feed the horse." The boy said expectantly.

"We're going to Hebei, and we're going back to Chang'an after selling this batch."

The young man said, "Then go to Hebei and return to Chang'an. I hate Luoyang and this place."

"Isn't there anything worthy of your nostalgia here? After all, it's where you grew up?"

The young man shook his head.

"I hate this place, everyone bullies me, you take me, I just need a bite to eat."

"I can be your slave!"

The young man was originally a black orphan.

He was willing to seize any chance of survival.

Qin Lang lamented that in future generations, no matter how pitiful a child of this age is, he will still have sunshine and warmth, but here, he has been left to fend for himself since he was three years old, and he doesn't know how this child got here Four years of struggling to survive in the world.

"Okay, you can follow me."

"Thank you."

The young man knelt down and kowtowed to Qin Lang. He kowtowed so seriously that blood flowed from his forehead until Qin Lang helped him up.

"It's bleeding, be careful."

"It's okay, I will die." Li Turjue said.

"What do you know?" Qin Lang asked.

"I can trap birds and rabbits, I can also shoot birds and animals with a slingshot, and I can speak Turkic."

"You speak Turkic? Didn't you say that you have never had any contact with Turkic people?"

"I once begged with an old man. He could speak Turkic, but he was not Turkic. He was named Li Turkic. Later, he taught me Turkic. Then he froze to death one winter and never woke up again. Come on, he's a good guy."

Speaking of the old beggar, Li Turjue felt a little sad.

"Turkic Ugly can only be regarded as a nickname. Let me give you a big name, Cunxiao, how about it? The only relative you have in this world is your mother. Although she has passed away, I hope you can remember her and keep her forever in your heart." A sense of filial piety. In the future, if you live like a human being, make some progress, and earn a royal order for your mother, it will be considered worthy of your mother."

"Cunxiao, Li Cunxiao." Li Tujue read a few words and nodded.

"This name is good. I will finally have a big name in the future. I will be called Li Cunxiao. I have a mother and no father in this world. From today on, you will be my father. Daddy is here, please be respected by the child."

Qin Lang was a little caught off guard, but unexpectedly this kid was very smart, he also knew how to hit a snake with a stick, give him a name, and he would come to worship his father.

But thinking about it these days, people generally like to adopt adopted sons. Many adopted sons are actually servants of trilogy, not sons. Only the stepsons recorded in the ancestral tree are real sons.

"You boy, well, I will accept you as a godson. From now on, you will learn how to feed the horse and drive the cart with the old horse head Ah Huang."

Ah Huang really likes this clever kid, "San Lang accepts a foster son, and I will accept an apprentice."

After the soup cakes were cooked, a group of hungry people gobbled them up. Li Cunxiao even ate three big bowls, and his deflated stomach became round.

"What does Sanlang plan to do?" Wei Zheng pointed at the group of hungry people.

Qin Lang sighed, "All I can do is give them a meal. As for the rest, I am beyond my reach for the time being. It should be the responsibility of the local officials to help the victims and appease the people."

"The local officials are helpless, so there are so many hungry people wandering outside." Wei Zheng said.

"Then do you have any good ideas?" Qin Lang asked.

"I have a temporary resettlement method here. I heard that you, Sanlang, have a lot of land in your hands, a total of [-] mu, all over the inside and outside of the pass?"

"You are well-informed, indeed, but there are [-] acres of Changle Princess's Yongye farmland, and I am only in charge of it."

"Anyway, it will be yours sooner or later. I have a suggestion. You can send someone to contact your manor near Luoyang, and then see if you can resettle these hungry people there, let them do some work, and earn a living. It is a great deed to survive this famine temporarily."

"This is also a way, let's try it."

I asked these hungry people just now. Most of them are actually nearby people. have to go back to their place of origin.Therefore, it is impossible for Qin Lang's farm to really take them in, which is inconsistent with the laws of the court.

Of course, it is also possible if it is only temporarily contained, but there will be some risks. It must be prevented that other hungry people will also take the opportunity to rush over, and then it will be troublesome.

At a time like this, in fact, even Qin Lang's manor probably has nothing to do. After all, there are many frosts and droughts, and the only thing they can do is to help some porridge after people pass by.

After hearing Qin Lang's plan, the hungry people showed joy, but some people saw that Qin Lang had accepted Li Tujue and stayed in the team, so they also sent the child over.

"My lord, please accept this child. Pity him. Just give him something to eat. He can do anything."

A haggard woman pushed a seven or eight-year-old boy in front of Qin Lang, making him kneel and kowtow to beg to be taken in.Although Qin Lang said that he would arrange for them to go to the manor in Luoyang, there are several children in this family, and the half-grown children live on the poor old man, and it is even more fatal in this famine.

No one knows what is waiting for them tomorrow, but if they can follow this big caravan, maybe this child can survive this famine.

A few more men and women sent their children, most of whom were eight or nine years old, eleven or twelve years old, and a few maids said they wanted to give them away, but in fact they were selling them for a couple of buckets of grain to satisfy their hunger.

In the past, Qin Lang only saw selling children and selling daughters in the history books, but when he actually saw his parents give away or even sell their children, he was very shocked.

He thought of how he loved his only daughter in every possible way in later generations, he was really a sweetheart, but now these children are so pitiful.

It cannot be said that their parents are cruel, and their parents also hope that they can survive.

Human life is worthless, Qin Lang suddenly thought of this sentence.

"Take them all down."

Qin Lang sighed.

"Sanlang? Carrying these little guys is also a burden." Qin Yong persuaded.

"When we pass through Luoyang, leave them in Luoyang, and I'll ask Wei Chang to pick them up. These children should be trained well, and they can be sent out to be hidden spies or even killers in the future." Qin Lang said.

"Saburo has a long-term plan, that's okay."

"Tell Wei Chang, take good care of these children, and let them read some books later."

(End of this chapter)